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Hillary Clinton scores Gaza cease fire success

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got a Gaza cease-fire right at the moment hope seemed dead for a rapid end to the violence — and next time, President Barack Obama will probably have to do it without her.

But Clinton won’t be around much longer to build on that progress. She’s made clear her intention to leave the State Department soon — and while that won’t leave Obama and his administration starting from scratch, it will mean they’ll have to continue without a woman who has built strong working relationships with many of the key players over years. And coming off of a salvaged truce at a critical moment, the impact of that looms large over the White House’s next four years of dealings with the Middle East.

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That’s not just about the continuing reverberations from the Arab Spring and violence in Syria, Libya and beyond. The administration has also struggled in its relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, tangling over both the peace process and how to end Tehran’s nuclear program.

The first bus bombing in years struck Tel Aviv just as she arrived for a round of shuttle negotiations that helped produce the deal Wednesday. Clinton, along with White House press secretary Jay Carney, condemned the attack — withering the optimism for stopping the Hamas rocket attacks and the threat of an Israeli ground operation.

Her trip came after days of Obama’s calls with Netanyahu and the Egyptian government — which was negotiating on behalf of Hamas — that had not produced a speedy result. There’s still a long distance between the cease-fire and any kind of lasting peace, but Clinton scored a major victory in a difficult region — one where, despite the list of local Obama priorities, the administration hasn’t seen much progress.

It was a rare bright spot for the Obama administration in a region that is in the midst of a profound transformation from authoritarian rule to popular democracy — and where the United States is seen in a mostly unfavorable light. And it was done by finding the kind of workable ground with the Egyptian government that’s proven difficult for the administration since Hosni Mubarak was toppled and Mohamed Morsi, an Islamist, was elected the new president.

Clinton even announced the agreement standing next to Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr. She hailed the agreement as an important step to bringing stability and peace to a region that has seen major upheaval and transformation in the past two years.

“The people of this region deserve the chance to be free of fear and violence and today’s agreement is a step in the right direction that we should build on,” Clinton said.

The agreement, brokered by Clinton and top Egyptian officials, called for an end to the Hamas rocket attacks and expressed hope for a “broader calm.”

“Every step must move us toward a comprehensive peace for all the people of the region,” she said, calling on Arab and Israeli leaders to concentrate on the broader goal of lasting, permanent peace throughout the region. “There is no substitute for a just and lasting peace.”

A couple of months ago, Obama said he didn’t know if Egypt was an ally. It will be great to find out what, if anything, Obama did to make this happen. If Obama did anything right, I’m sure the classified info will get leaked out of the WH. If it turns out that Obama had little to do with getting the agreement signed, it will take 2 years and a thousand hearings to get to the truth.

Will Hillary ride the busses and praise the terrorist bombings of busses, pizza parlors and random houses? Will she congratulate the Muslim Brotherhood for a truce while they reload? Just how STUPID is STUPID?

A couple of months ago, Obama said he didn’t know if Egypt was an ally. It will be great to find out what, if anything, Obama did to make this happen. If Obama did anything right, I’m sure the classified info will get leaked out of the WH. If it turns out that Obama had little to do with getting the agreement signed, it will take 2 years and a thousand hearings to get to the truth.

There may not be a right side, but our supporting the Jewish state's continuing siege and apartheid occupation of Palestinian is the wrong side. Abandoning and aggressively isolating the Jewish state would force it abandon its paranoid pursuit of invulnerability, territorial conquest and supremacist empire in, and beyond, the Mideast. There is no greater or kinder support that America could render to both the Mideast and its “inseparable Mideast ally.”

A couple of months ago, Obama said he didn’t know if Egypt was an ally. It will be great to find out what, if anything, Obama did to make this happen. If Obama did anything right, I’m sure the classified info will get leaked out of the WH. If it turns out that Obama had little to do with getting the agreement signed, it will take 2 years and a thousand hearings to get to the truth.

You poor idiot you, you don't understand that it was an ultimatum. What the President was saying to Egypt was, "If you want to be our friend,, act like it". Immediately after Pres Obama's statement, the Egyptian president cleared the demonstrators away from our embassy, that's how you get things done.

There may not be a right side, but our supporting the Jewish state's continuing siege and apartheid occupation of Palestinian is the wrong side. Abandoning and aggressively isolating the Jewish state would force it abandon its paranoid pursuit of invulnerability, territorial conquest and supremacist empire in, and beyond, the Mideast. There is no greater or kinder support that America could render to both the Mideast and its “inseparable Mideast ally.”

How soon will “Hamas”, a terrorist organization, restock with Iranian weaponry?

To reach this “cease-fire”, how much more of taxpayers’ money did President Obama and Sec. of State Hillary Clinton “promise” “Islamic Muslin” nations and “Hamas”, a terrorist organization and others, “OR” has the Israeli military destroyed most of their enemies rockets, missiles, etc.?

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